Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-07-06
woMsH IN BUSINESS
Girls Rendered. More : If Reliant by Dali
Assoclatlon with Men.

Girls Rendered. More If Reliant by Dali,
Association with Men.
Tho revolution In tho relationship oi
working women 90 bu sinsss has bccomt
o. general wrt,s tao NV York CORE.
spoadont OF tho Philadelphia Press, tha'
Thousands or women who Jess ih.n ter
years ngo would have bon obliged &c
work In Factories, as household servants
or with their ncldlcs are now filling tho
places Of clerks, secr'tlr.eS, stenoyrn.
phors, typo writer's and oven ofa o errant
girls In tho dowa-tOwn estab ishnents
s.le by side W Ga mon. No one who CT me;
10 New York can fail 10 notice IL. WOmon
are 10 be seen In a Great majority OF the
largo counting rooms and general Offices |
and one runs across the n In tho cham bers
OF lawyers, and even in those smallest
business places wherein ono man con.
ducts an agency or consulting room, and
tho girl he employs is alono with hin
great part OF the time New
avenues arc thus opcnc 10 thous md
upon thousands OF wJnSI 70 an
extent that may, without OK ggar.
piJn, be sail 10 have created re evolution
Is tho opportunities and surroundings OF |
the sex. That this chan &C "a nor relat!o =
ship 10 mou, whereby she W. Ks with him
I'll day SIX days In tho week mutt affect
tho sex and b. fIlt by soc e,y, il needs no
reelection for any one 70 perez.
In tho oUorating-r ON Of the WesterI
Union Telegraph Company, at n dizzJ
height al, vo the roofs aud many OF the
towers OF tho city. 100 mn and women
mainly between the age q e. .htecn aut
fliriy five. manipulate the ectric ma
chinCs that scatter and receive ihr elcciri,
correspondence Of the metropolis. Fo'
severn. years women have bccu emplnyc
sdc y side with men in this great work
room, and as the sexes have never been
did iJl. hut aim 1T oyJry giri and W JinAa
has been brought at one time or another
% tie side Of almost every man. this is o
splendid vantage p,iIt for stuIyi " the
problem presented ty this new phase OF
city lifu.
Tho questions that II was necessary "a
oak h"st put 10 M. William j. Dcaley
the manager
HAS IL boon your experionco," ! IN.
qnirod. ''that ladies in bu ,iac5s lo4e tholI
feminine ambition TO hurry DAD keen
housct Do they marry In any l1js proper
ti0n In business than they do from ths
ZONES Of tho landT'
My experience" said Mr. Dealer. Hi,
that ladies In business become TO n certain
oNtont independent, crnscQuently 10 1rt
self-roiisnt naturally mor1 czncting, more
critical less sentimental beitor able gcn
I
their marriages are more witoly planned
aud rosult In "A groater average of bau
pinosa than ~ they had loas means OK cd
s0rVaiton- My oxpcr .orco is that there
gro moro marriages boiwoan peul,l, IL |
business In the samo tfIlco tLaa they,
would DO between tho sumo number a
men and women N not so closely nSso
DATED la business Their judgment la the
choieo ~ life partners Is exec lent, s,riply
because OF their cKper CT co. Tho BOYS !
SEQ many kinds Of girls, and tho girls ar |
equal vartoiy OF boys, aud they learn Il |
compare the qualities OF those arounC
thcm-"
Then business docs not rob n woman O,
feminine qualities; she still warts u be
wiie aud iuln!l hor natural part in lifer |
inquired.
Eyes"
"Aro lady operators In this ofl~c robbed |
OF Their graoes and charms by tho Il scip |
Lane OF businossi"
mo- on the Contrary they add 20 thei,
charms by being constantly on thor dig
Try, Whi'h u necessary Outcome q dis |
ripine. Women In business load two /
lives, ono business life aud tho other a |
social life. Tho training Of their bushes, |
hio makes thom practical economical |
and far-seoing Ia social life. The majority |
OF them (porhaps 10 may 10 saii that nj |
~ them) have Deepen douts upon them nj |
homo, and thu sense OF responsibility thu, \
Developed necessarily makes thea gooc /
houSck'opors-gotd managers"
You have had a long experience horo ir /
room whore two hundrOI ladies and FIVE /
hundred mon are together every day; has
u boon your experience that tlIs contact
has ever caused any scandal, or woula
rauso you 10 udviso parents " keep thou
daughters out Of busiuosarr
"No" Nc. Dealcy rop.ioI; "Ihavc never
own of any thing that had the shallow
~ scandal arising from any such contact
and instead q advising paronts not "a
send thOir daughters 10 business, I know
" no bottor school for those dauSators.n
Really, Wow OF tho seven hundred
Of orators at thoir WORK was in itself IN
answer TO many Of the questions one de-.
sired TO ask on this subject The girls
And women were singular,y feminine In
hh ~ ir ways. No attempt at bCaut fca-
ton had been missed. 1h'y were n coma.
y lot OF young women, aud not ouly were
heir faces soft ana pump and
rosy aud thor coiffurcs modish, In,
hoy wore all those Little Ease nations IN
inc ahUpo or bows aud ribbons and
r'nga and Glaborateiy drpiI garments,
Which every properly constituted m ,,uiher
q The sex 30 dOtes upon. Their rounded
forms gave ne testimony against the
hcalthfuiHcss ~ their business Whcrcy-
er girl was for moment unoccupiod
with business shc took UP knitting, en-.
broidory, crOch1tting or newspaper. II
"a said that the talk OF these girls among
thcmso'Ves Is usually practical, sJnsib.e
Ind upon serious topics. Tno most inter-
osttng thing 4 observed there Was the
practical turn or miuI and tho very cr.d.
liable ambition n those little girls called
pick ups" who arr employed 10 carry
kilograms hthor and thither among the
operators. Whom the dinner hour camo
some aprlod themselves to practice
among the instruments anl some toI,arn.
Ing the typo writer--all tating ono or the
Other, aud each expectlns soon 20 be earn
Ing more money In this model work.
room cVoTy girl Is addressed us Mss and
referred 10 as a lady.